Search Results: Authors starting with S from Howard Karno Books Inc

Manizales, Colombia: Raya Editorial, 2022. Offset 15 black and white portraits and 30 color archive photos. Covers with saddle red stich binding with small lead ball hanging from red stich, plus one booklet (24 pages, 18 cm). NOTE: The photobook has a Japanese style binding (Oriental double folded pages), which allows breaking them with a thread where a piece of lead hangs. Paradoxically, the lead ('plomazo") was the one that caused the death of their children. Since 2008, photographer Carlos Saavedra and anthropologist Sebastián Ramírez have worked with the association "Madres de Falsos Positivos de Soacha y Bogotá (MAFAPO)" made up of mothers, wives, daughters and sisters of the men killed by soldiers of the Colombian National Army in an illegitimate manner and who presented their bodies as those of guerrilla fighters to collect financial bonuses for such killings offered by the Colombian government during the government of President Álvaro Uribe Vélez (between 2006 and 2009). Saavedra's… Read More

Buenos Aires: Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, 2004. b/w and color plates, ports., facs., color pict. fldg. wrps. Painter Savat (b. Uruguay 1933) collection of watercolors designed as an illustrated biography of jazz musician Jean Baptiste "Django" Reinhardt.

Buenos Aires: Universidad Nacional de Quilmes; Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2006. color plates, ports., illus., cat., color pict. wrps. Exhibition of artist Sabat's (b. Uruguay 1933) collection of caricatures of internationally known 20th century painters (Picasso, Klee, Matisse, Braque, Kandinsky, Van Gogh, Chagall, Bonnard, Munch, Seurat, Monet, Magritte, Kahlo and Mondrian, among others), along with "tongue in cheek" anecdotes, testimonies and presumed autobiographical notes.

Cascade, Trinidad: Paria Publishing Company Limited, 2000. b/w and color plates, color endpapers, color pict boards. Beautiful book illustrated with historic photographicpostcards that travellers sent from Trinidad in the late19th Century and early 20th Century. Many city views and architecture.

México: Consejo Nacional Para Las Culturas y Las Artes, 1999. port. frontis, b/w plates, b/w pict. boards. Biography and critical work placing Modotti in political context. Concise and informative work.

México: Grupo Carso, 2003. b/w plates, facs, mus. nots, ports, notes, chron, bibl, embossed boards, b/w illus. d.j. History and selected texts and illustrations of the Mexican magazine "El Mundo Ilustrado". In 1894, Rafael Reyes Spíndola, the father of the modern Mexican press, founded the weekly magazine "El Mundo Ilustrado", offering the subscribers articles and photographs about art, poetry, music, culture, local events, comic strips and advertising sections during President Porfirio Diaz regime. Many intellectuals of the time collaborated: Novelists Amado Nervo and Ruben Darío, artists Julio Ruelas and Carlos Alcalde and photographer J.M. Lupercio among others. Selección de imágenes y textos de la revista mexicana El Mundo Ilustrado, que circuló desde 1894. La revista trató sobre arte, poesía, música y cultura. Entre los ilustradores estuvo José María Villasana y Carlos Alcalde. También publicó fotografías, partituras y algunas caricaturas.

São Paulo: Editora Perspectiva, 1972. b/w plates, draws., meas. draws., maps, tbls., plans, wrps. Architect, Luís Saia, looks at numerous aspects of architecture in São Paulo, Brazil. Includes a look at monuments, houses, rural architecture, past and future trends. PRESENTATION COPY.

Puebla: Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, BUAP; Secretaría de Cultura de Puebla; Université de Montréal.., 2009. b/w plates, maps, plans, illus., ind., bibl., color pict. wrps. N.B. Series issued out of order. Numbers published thus far: 1, 2, 3, 5, 9. Standing orders available for future numbers. OCLC: 748938076. Volume 9 of the Collection is part of a series of 10 volumes. The whole collection is the partial result of a collective inventory that started as a formal process in 1991, when the aerial photographs of the historic downtown and its surroundings were taken with the intention of creating a macro-inventory of the built patrimony city. The project was reactivated in 1994.The outcome then was a multimedia CD-Rom, 18 years after the project was first started they have begun to be published in a print format. This volume is a virtual journey through air, earth, circuit paths and interiors of 9 city blocks of the old part of the city, where identity landmarks, symbolic objects and… Read More

Puebla: Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, BUAP; Secretaría de Cultura de Puebla; Université de Montréal.., 2009. b/w plates, maps, plans, illus., ind., bibl., color pict. wrps. N.B. Series issued out of order. Numbers published thus far: 1, 2, 3, 5, 9. Standing orders available for future numbers. OCLC: 748938076. Volume 3 of the Collection is part of a series of 10 volumes. The whole collection is the partial result of a collective inventory that started as a formal process in 1991, when the aerial photographs of the historic downtown and its surroundings were taken with the intention of creating a macro-inventory of the built patrimony city. The project was reactivated in 1994.The outcome then was a multimedia CD-Rom, 18 years after the project was first started they have begun to be published in a print format. This volume is a virtual journey through air, earth, circuit paths and interiors of 9 city blocks of the old part of the city, where identity landmarks, symbolic objects and… Read More

Puebla: Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, BUAP; Secretaría de Cultura de Puebla; Université de Montréal.., 2012. b/w plates, maps, plans, illus., ind., bibl., color pict. wrps. N.B. Series issued out of order. Numbers published thus far: 1, 2, 3, 5, 9. Standing orders available for future numbers. OCLC: 748938076. Volume 2 of the Collection is part of a series of 10 volumes. The whole collection is the partial result of a collective inventory that started as a formal process in 1991, when the aerial photographs of the historic downtown and its surroundings were taken with the intention of creating a macro-inventory of the built patrimony city. The project was reactivated in 1994.The outcome then was a multimedia CD-Rom, 18 years after the project was first started they have begun to be published in a print format. . "Puebla was conceived to be seen from heaven. In this first volume (of the collection) we follow two central routes. This is the historic axis that was planned as symbolic… Read More

La Habana: Instituto Cubano del Libro, 1997. b/w plates, pict. wrps. A collection of photographs of Che Guevara to commemorate the 30th anniversary of his death. Includes several photos with Fidel Castro and text by Enrique Acevedo, General de Brigada.

San Luis Potosí: Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí; CONACYT, 2012. color plates, map, color pict. wrps. OCLC: 900652588. CONTENTS: Miradas y lecturas al espacio habitado -- Zonas arqueologicas -- Pueblos y ciudades -- La ciudad de San Luis Potosí -- Exhaciendas. LIMITED EIDTION OF 1000 COPIES.

México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM, 1964. plus 40 b/w plates, and 2 color plates, map, tbl., wrps.

México, D.F.: Miguel Angel Porrúa, 2007. color plates, 1 fldg. plate, bibl. (p. 203-205), color pict. wrps., paperback. Documents collection of over 400 photographic postcards of Torreón, Mexico. Torreón was designated as a city in 1907 and at that time was inhabited by foreigners as well as Mexican nationals. The collection commemorates the one hundred year anniversary of the city. "Torreón recibió la categoría de ciudad en el año de 1907, sus primeros habitantes fueron inmigrantes tanto nacionales como extranjeros que encontraron la oportunidad de asimilarse trayendo consigo su cultura. Esta obra formada por una colección de más de 400 postales, es un homenaje por el centenario de esta ciudad lagunera. Muestra un relato de su historia a través de postales que presentan momentos irrepetibles transmitiendo grandes sentimientos, un viaje que nos remonta a un pasado que a su vez permite definir los elementos para construir el futuro."

Bogotá: Zona y Sociedad Colombiana de Arquitectos, 2006. (New). b/w and color plates, facs., tbls., plans, elevations, meas. draws., cat., appens., bibls., color pict. d.j. A two volume set. The catalogue of the 20th edition of the biennale presenting the most outstanding architectural projects in all the different regions of the country of the past 2 years. First prizes included the following categories: Architectonic Project prize "Fernando Martinez Sanabria" awarded to the building for temporary exhibition Banrepublica (Bogota) by architects Juan Carlos Rojas Iragorri and Enrique Triana; Architecture of Interiors, prize "Dicken Castro Duque" awarded to the building Crepes & Waffles (Bogotá) by architect Guillermo Fischer; Urban Design and Landscape, prize Karl Brunner awarded to park Tercer Milenio (Bogotá) by architect Camilo Santamaría Gamboa; Restoration of Patrimony, prize Carlos Arbelaez Camacho awarded to the restoration of the temple and convent of Santo Domingo (Cartagena) by… Read More

México: Consejo Nacional de Fomento Educativo, 1985. color plates, wrps. Charming nail art painted on Amate paper. Drawings by Abraham Mauricio Salazar.

Tegucigalpa: Editorial Guaymuras, 2002. illus., plans, tbls., map, glos., bibl., color pict. wrps. Analysis of the regional popular architectural structures of the Hicaques, Garífunas, Payas, Lencas, Misquitos, Mayas, and Chortís indigenous groups in Honduras with many illustrations. Second Edition.

México: Editorial Clío, 2000. b/w and color plates, color frontis., facs., maps, port., recipes, glos., bibl., plus advts., color pict. wrps. Devoted to fruits indigenous to Mexico with traditional and modern recipes. Part of a series devoted to Mexican culinary history and recipes.

Caracas: Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, 1990. b/w plates, ports., bio./chron., biblheom., fldg. wrps. LIMITED EDITION OF 500. Spanish born (1927) artist, who now lives in Venezuela since 1956. ENGLISH AND SPANISH TEXT.

São Paulo: Fundação Iberê Camargo; Cosac Naify, 2003. b/w plates, port., draws., bibl., appen., fldg. wrps. Texts by several authors for a seminar on Camargo held at the foundation in December of 2002 on and about the noted artist, Iberê Camargo (b. Brazil 1914-1994). The seminar covered the development of his career and the many facets of his work until his death.